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Jesse Stuart On Education
No full textCould a man who never earned a master\u27s degree tell the nation\u27s teachers and administrators how to run their schools? Jesse Stuart, who had a life-long love of education, did just that.
From Stuart\u27s autobiographical works, J .R. LeMaster has chosen selections that demonstrate his philosophy of learning and teaching, and his philosophy of life. The selections establish a loose chronology of events in Stuart\u27s lifelong education and describe his experience as preschooler, student, teacher, and school administrator.
This multiple perspective, LeMaster suggests, is essential to understanding the process we call education—a process Jesse Stuart located in nature, believing that human beings are first and foremost natural beings and only incidentally cultural beings. That is, while we belong to an order of human beings, we also belong to a larger order—a universe of living things.
In his general introduction LeMaster discusses Stuart\u27s life and philosophy, providing the reader with a backdrop against which to study selections from Beyond Dark Hills, The Thread That Runs So True, The Year of My Rebirth, God\u27s Oddling, Mr. Gallion\u27s School, To Teach, To Love, and other Stuart works. Each excerpt is illumined by LeMaster\u27s discussion of its place in Stuart\u27s philosophy of education.
Those concerned with the apparent breakdown of the American educational system will find much to consider in LeMaster\u27s discussion of the implications of Stuart\u27s views on education. He contends that the present crisis in our schools stems from an inadequate philosophy for living and that Jesse Stuart, who believed education was a natural development, knew as much all along.
J.R. LeMaster is professor of English and director of American studies at Baylor University.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1060/thumbnail.jp
Jesse Stuart: Essays on His Work
No full textJ. R. LeMaster and Mary Washington Clarke have here assembled a distinguished collection of essays on the works of Jesse Stuart. A prolific writer, Stuart is at home in many different genres; his poetry, his short stories, his novels, and his autobiographical writings are widely known, and his books for children have enjoyed great popularity. Despite the variety of his work and despite the diversity of the ten essayists\u27 points of view, there emerges from this volume a consistent view of a man whose close contact with the land and the people of his region has produced a distinctive body of writing.
H. Edward Richardson offers us a glimpse of Jesse Stuart at home, freely and earnestly discussing his work and relating it to the scenes about him. This essay forms a background for the other contributors\u27 discussions of Stuart\u27s humor, his use of folklore, and his persistent agrarian point of view. This, the first collection of all new critical essays on Stuart\u27s writings, succeeds admirably in what criticism is supposed to do-making more accessible the important work of a significant writer.
J. R. LeMaster is director of the American Studies Program at Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
Mary Washington Clarke is emeritus professor of English and folklore, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1025/thumbnail.jp
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Financial Summit: J.R. Briggs & Dave Briggs
No full textDave and J.R. Briggs speak on stewardship of finances.
Dave Briggs currently serves as the stewardship director at Central Christian Church of Arizona. Previously he served in a similar role at Willowcreek Church and prior to that was a finance manager for GE for 27 years. He has developed numerous financial seminars and classes and regularly speaks at churches and conferences around the country. Dave and his wife Debbie had two sons attend Taylor and served for three years on the Taylor Parents’ Cabinet.
J.R. Briggs wears a variety of ministry hats. On a local level, he serves as one of the pastors of The Renew Community. He is also the Founder and Director of Kairos Partnerships and Director of Leadership and Congregation Formation for the Ecclesia Network. He is a life coach, consultant, frequent speaker, and author of seven books. He and his wife Megan, along with their two sons Carter and Bennett, live in the Philadelphia area
The effect of turbulence on particle impaction om a cylinder in a cross flow
No full textParticle impaction on a cylinder in a cross flow is investigated with the use of Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), with a focus on the effect of turbulence on the impaction efficiency. It is found that for particles with Stokes numbers in the boundary stopping mode there is up to ten times more front side impaction for turbulence with a large integral scale, than for a corresponding laminar flow. The back side impaction efficiency is also found to be influenced by the turbulence. The highest back side impaction efficiency is found for turbulence with small integral scales
J.R. Léveillé, 45th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJ. R. Léveillé is a renowned figure in Franco-Manitoban and francophone literature. He is the author of over thirty interdisciplinary works of poetry, fiction, television documentaries and theater. He is included in many anthologies and his work is studied in many Canadian schools. His 2001 novel, The Setting Lake Sun (Le soleil du lac qui se couche) won the Prix Rue-Deschambault prize in 2002 and was selected for the 2020 edition of Le Combat des Livres. Some of his recent works include New York Trip (2003); Pierre Lardon (2011); Poème, Pierre, Prière (Poeme, Rock, Prayer, 2011); L\u27Invocation de Rutebeuf et the Villion (2012); Ganiishomong, ou l\u27extase du temps (2020) and Ex-Nihilo in 2021 with E.D. Blodgett. He was awarded the Manitoba Arts Council\u27s Award of Distinction in 2012
Romans en marge: les trois premières fictions de J.R. Léveillé
No full textLors de la publication des trois premières fictions de J.R. Léveillé: Tombeau (1968), La disparate (1975) et Plage (1984) – qui ont été rééditées dans l’oeuvre intitulée Romans –, la critique littéraire avait souligné le caractère d’avant-garde innovateur du style d’écriture de l’écrivain franco-manitobain. Issu d’un milieu minoritaire, et proposant des textes en marge du mainstream, J.R. Léveillé incarne, à notre avis, l’artiste postmoderne par excellence qui conçoit chaque «projet d’écriture» sous un nouvel angle expérimental. À l’instar de Rimbaud, J.R. Léveillé déploie différentes stratégies pour dérégler non seulement les sens, mais aussi «le sens», ou la cohérence attendue d’un récit. Une étude des procédés mis en oeuvre dans ces trois fictions nous permettra de voir, d’une part, comment le matériau premier du texte, à savoir les mots et les images, est manipulé par l’auteur et quel impact ces manipulations ont sur la cohérence attendue d’un récit. Nous espérons, d’autre part, pouvoir dégager la portée d’une telle écriture qui se renouvelle avec chaque nouveau titre en explorant la richesse de la marge, voire de «l’extrême marge».When the first three fictional works of Franco-Manitoban writer J.R. Léveillé were published (Tombeau, 1968, La disparate, 1975, and Plage, 1984, reissued in a single collection entitled Romans in 1995), literary critics pointed up the innovative, avant-garde character of Léveillé’s writing. J.R. Léveillé, a member of the French-speaking minority who produces writing that keeps resolutely to the fringes, is, in our opinion, the epitome of a post-modern artist, conceiving each new writing project from a new, experimental angle. Like Rimbaud, J.R. Léveillé deploys a variety of strategies to muddle not only the senses, but the meaning, direction, and coherency expected from a story. By examining the processes used in these three works of fiction, we will show, first of all, how the raw materials of the text—namely, the words and the images—are handled by the author, along with the impact that this handling has on the coherency expected from the story. Subsequently, we hope to flesh out the scope of such writing, which redefines itself with each new title, exploring the rich territory of the fringes, nay, the outer limits of the fringes
Forms of judaism in writings of F.R. Kraus, František Kafka, Hana Bělohradská and J.R. Pick
No full textTéma této práce zní Podoby židovství v dílech F.R. Krause, Františka Kafky, Hany Bělohradské a J.R. Picka. Soustředila jsem se na méně známé české autory, kteří se ve své tvorbě věnovali tématu židovství. Jedná se o texty související s 2. světovou válkou. V úvodu je nastíněn stručný přehled o působení Židů na našem území, následuje představení zvolené čtveřice autorů. Hlavním cílem bylo přiblížit a rozebrat vybraná díla a v závěru shrnout jejich odlišné a podobné znaky. Současně byly tyto texty zařazeny do kontextu české prózy s tematikou okupace.Katedra českého jazyka a literaturyObhájenoThe theme of this bachelor work is called Forms of judaism in writings of F.R. Kraus, František Kafka, Hana Bělohradská and J.R. Pick. In this thesis the author tried to concentrate on a few less-known Czech writers, who devoted their writing to the fate of Jews during the Second World War. In the first part of this work the author outlined the influence of the Jewish etnic group on the population of our country, with the aim to gain orientation in the historical backgound of that time. Next the author analysed the texts of selected books with the Jewish theme from different points of view and in the end of her work compared the books she used. In the closing of this work there is a contextual classification of the mentioned books into the category of works with the topic of occupation, from the end of the Second World War until today
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